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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
A Little Rascality of eFes6 e tne p
tics.
Ln1innnn0ziS Journal.

The members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union are apt
to inveigh against the depravity OF
the old political parties and other or
CARNATIONS. Unfortunately for this
theory, however, the Temperance
Union itself becomes involved IN un-
pleasant. scandals once in a While.
The Minnesota branch of the assocl'
alton is endeavoring now to smooth
a very disagreeable little affair.
It came about in this way: Last
winter the State Legislature provided
for the introduction into the public
schools of the study Of physiology
and hygiene with special reference to
the effect of alcohol on the human
system. 4 committee appointed to
examine and recommend text books,
has lust made it's report, which, after
enumerating the books chosen makes
an exposition of the efforts made &c
influence their choice in favor OF
certain publishing house by the &C
credited and paid State agent OF the
WC.T.U-a man. His advocacy
of these books was followed up b.
urgent requests of delegations of TEN
perance people, who, among othe
arguments in favor of the publica
> tions, pointed out articles in brew
ers paper attacking them. These,
was afterwards ascertained were cor
tributed to the brewers paper by th
' ". C. T. L. agent himself. 1t wa
; further found that this same ing
NOUS person had been for consl'
erable time engaged with Mrs: Hun
. = superintendent in the national d
u nartment of scientific temperance il
j. struction, in the publication of the
:, same books, and that these two pc
Y ple were far from being animated,
Il they professed, by purely phila
o thropic motives. The ladies Of t
u State organization are acquitted
y. the committee of any Intentional col
4, - plicity in the scheme, but the disco
u cry that scamps may creep into th'
L. righteous fold may instill measu
q of charity in their judgment of 9th
- political bodies.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
The Boom Just Started.
Dakota Bell.

During the course Of a sermon IN
g Dakota town last Sunday harsh
creaking was heard to proceed from
under the church. After some time
3 movement was felt in the building,
and several members of the building
cot up and started out, fearing an
earthquake was coming.
Friends" said the minister. as he
stopped his sermon and leaned on
the pulpit, "pray be seated; there IS
no DANGER
"Oh, that's all right, Sister Brown
You see there are some Workmen
under the building with jackscre"s
and now they have hitched on to the
back end with ten yoke of oxen' ano
are shaking the edihce over onto
back street. In the morning, Goc
willing, work will commence on thl'
lot on the finest opera house west o
Chicago. I tell you the boom IN thl
town is only just nicely started"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
NOBLE AND COURTLY.
The Presidents st. Louis Letter COM
mended by the "G. A. R.n

The Grand Army Record of Boston
is broad enough to do justice to the
President, while not abating a jot of
its representative quality as the
mouthpiece of the veterans of the
Union army. Its position goes to
show that the Washington journal,
which sustains close relations with
the schemes of pension agents, mis-
represents the men who have just
fraternized with Ex Confederates,
and to whom the fact of a reunited
country is a welcome reality. The
voice of Grant is more to be honored
than are the heated words of Tuttle.
The Grand Army Record says: -
president Cleveland's letter to
Major Francis, of st. Louis, declining
the invitation to be present in that
city on the occasion of the national
encampment Of the Grand Army of
the Republic, which is published
elsewhere in this paper, is one of the
noblest and most courtly documents
that ever came from the pen of a
-
President of the United States. No
comrade of the order, unbiased by
selfish, or political motives, will hes
itste to condemn the mischief.makers,
outside or inside the organization,
whose insults and obnoxious in.
TERRENCE forced upon the President
the necessity for writing such an
epistle. But there is this about it.
The Presidents dignifed course and
manly communication has punctured
somebody's political balloon and
the accumulated gas of the past
two months has turned into yapor."
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28

him to sleep. He is7hsefaEf =
himself by inches. Meanwhile be-
has little 10 do with his family be-
sides furnishing money to meet the
current expenses. His children see
but little of him and scarcely have
any of his company; and if their
mother, as it is often the case, be a
woman of fashion," their case IS
pitiable. They are raised without
that parental attention, instruction
and manifested interest and affection
necessary to make home attractive
and pleasant. Hence they seek en-
tertainment and amusement else
where, and often form associations
and imbibe principles that corrupt
their morals and lead them to Life
of folly and crime.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
Own Your Owa Homes.

Every man, whether he is a work.
ing man in the common acceptation
of the word or not, feels a deeper in.
terest in the management of the af-
fairs of the city, county, and State in
which he lives whenever he OWES
home. He is more patriotic, aptly
says our worthy contemporary, the
Industrial Gazette, and in many ways
is q better citizen than the man who
simply rents, and who has but little
il any assurance of Row long it will
be before he can be ordered to move; :;
to which may be added in many
cases the saving of more money Of
course it requires some economy to
lay up sufficient amount of money
to purchase and pay for q home; but
this very fact, if properly carried out
after the home is acquired, may be
the Instrument of furnishing the
means to commence and prosecute q
business upon your own responsible
ity. True, in some cases it will re.
quire more economy, perhaps, than
we are now practlcing. But the ques.
tion of every man, and especially #
he is the head of family, is, can he
afford it? That is, can he afford to
live up to his wages as fast as he
earns them, without laying up any
thing for the future? If he is The
head of a family, he is obliged to pay
rent, and it does not require very
many years of rent paying to make,
up an amount sufficient to purchase,
and pay for a comfortable home.
You have to pay the rent. This you
say you cannot avoid and be honest.
Well, you cannot be honest with
your family unless you make a rea.
sonable attempt to provide them q
home Of their own in case anything
should happen to you. And the OBJ
legation to do this should be as strong
as the one to pay rent or provide the
other necessaries for the comfort Of
your family. When you own a home,
you feel direct interest in public
affairs that otherwise you might con.
slider were of little interest.
How to Live to be Hundred.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
the petted financier, fed for his life
with furious mob at his heels.

the petted fnancier, fed for his life
with furious mob at his heels.
About the same time England was
going through her South sea hubble
experience. A company was organ.
lied to carry trade to the South sea.
Shares rose from $500 to $4,000, and
then went down to nothing, involving
millions of people in ruin.
This country was not destined to
escape. About 1926 it was whis-
pered around that the culture of mul,
berry trees for the silk industry
would make every man, woman and
child rich. Doctors, lawyers, farm
ers, laborers and women at once
dropped everything and began to
raise mulberry trees. The trees
grew rapidly, and from Maine to
Florida and the Atlantic to the Mis-
sissippi there was a whirl of excite.
ment. Mulberry cuttings advanced
in price from three dollars per hun
dred up to twenty five, fifty, one hun
dred, two hundred, and finally five
hundred dollars per hundred. We
imported them from Maine. We set
them out everywhere. Mulberry auc.
tions were held. One nurseryman
sold $4,000 worth Of cuttings in one
season. For fourteen years the
speculation had a mad rush. Count
less fortunes were made and lost.
But the sober second thought came
at last. Men began to ask: "After
all, where is the profit in this thing?"
The mulberries tumbled, and the
silk dealers found themselves with
millions of mulberry cuttings that
bad dropped from five hundred dol
lars per hundred to one dollar.
Perhaps we are not likely to see
any such speculations altogether SIS
wild as these. But they are valuable
as warning examples, and the lessons
taught by them are worth bearing in
mind in these days of boom and fu-
lures. The more tempting the
scheme, the more danger there is in
it. These short cuts to wealth are
very deceptive, and they sometimes
,l1frrsss.t lfrss e the penitentiary.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
A Mistake Of $3.50 Discovered a1ser
Many Years.

The count of cash in the treasury
made necessary by the transfer from
Ex.Treasurer Jordan to Treasurer
Hyatt has been completed. a short.
AGE of one piece in a sack Of quarter
eagles, filled many years ago. was
discovered. The sack bore a tag
giving the name of the clerk who
filed It and he is still in the treasury.
He promptly made the shortage gooa:
When this money was passed TO
Treasurer Jordan it was weighed but
not counted. This time the pieces
were counted and the error discov'
cred. With this exception the cash
was all right.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
Speculative Crazes.
Lit1anta Constitution.

Deep down in the heart of tue aver
age man there is lurking passion
for gambling.
AS we progress in morals and civ
ilization we place certain crude forms
of gambling under the ban. We
make games Of chance Illegal and
impose heavy penalties upon the fel-
lows who refuse to shape their gam
bling methods in accordance with
public sentiment.
But speculation is always in order.
Sometimes it is not. 1t is difficult to
draw the line and perhaps it would
be useles to attempt to crush 1t by
law. When men see chance to sud
denly acquire great wealth by specu'
lation they are going to run into it.
One of the earliest great specula-
tive crazes was the famous tulip
mania in Holland. In 1854 the peo-
ple began to neglect everything else.
In the cultivation of tulips they saw
tile roval road to wealth. Tulip
markets and royal exchanges were
established and the rage spread to
ENGLAND. Lords and ladies, solid
merchants, farmers, mechanics and
chimney sweeps invested in tulips
Men leaped from poverty to afluence
Some tulips sold as high as Sl'5oI
apiece. A code of laws was drawn
, up to regulate the traffic. After two
wears came crash. Everybody hae
tulips, and nobody had any money
Millionaires became beggars an(
, Holland received blow from whlcl
o she did not recover for generation
France some three quarters OF
h century later had similar eSper'
> ence with John Laws Mississippi
y scheme. Nobody knew anythln
about Mississippi. At that time tn
# territory was practically as WORTHLESS
TO France as the tulips were to do
n land before the craze started. La
,s was daring genius, and he persua'
of ed people to invest in stock COZ
If pany, the object Of which was
,t make Mississippi new France. b
9. promised tremendous dividends ar
IS everybody commenced scramblll
,v for stock. The farmers left the cou
or try and hocked to Paris. Law :"
r.. not allowed time to eat and slee
Mixed in with the rabble sto'
o+ princes, peasants, duchesses al
~. wlsherwomen through the day al
It, night waiting for a chance to p'
pv chase shares. The stock rose I'll
ck times its faceyalue. In eight mont
the whole thing collapsed and La
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
In Haste to be Rich.
st. Louis Adrocate.

One of the great dangers Of this
country at the present is the great
haste to be rich. A few men, by
some means or other, have in tie
last few years become wealthy to an
extent unprecedented in the history
of the country, and it has almost
crazed thousands OF people, WHO
rush forward in all manner of lucra-
tive enterprises, as if they expected
to attain like ends, and that, too, in
a very short time. So engrossed are
they in pursuit of wealth that almost
everything else is forgotten or su-
bordinated to this ruling passion,
which, if it continues, will ultimately
burn out all the nobler and generous
feelings of our nature. Health, CON-
fort, and life itself, are sacrificed to
this passion, while those who are fore
most in the race stimulate others by
their example, and the feeling wldens
and strengthens until it compels
men, who otherwise would be calm
and moderate, to 60 far beyond all
moderate bounds. In the general
rush they must do 80 or be over
whelmed. AS a consequence, they
have little time for mental improve
ment, spiritual culture or domestic or
social enjoyment. The average bust.
ness man works from twelve to ff-
teen hours in the twenty-four,
often regards it as q necessity to
resort to stimulants in order to keep
up a proper nervous tension, and
literal fss.ssss sss..-ssssls to soporlfcs to enable
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
THE STORY OF A STRIKE.
Operators and Operatives in the Penn
sylvania Coke Region Lose S1,-
100000 on Each Side.

P1TTsBURG, July 22.-The coke
strike just ended was one of the most
stubbornly contested battles ever
fought between capital and labor.
For eleven weeks and four days the
fight went on, and, now that it is
over, the feeling between men and
operators is, if anything, more. cordial
than it was before.
The amount of money caused by
the long idleness cannot be accu-
rately calculated, but it runs up into
millions. When the strike began
four-ffths Of 1000 men in the region
had money of their own, but very
few Of them have enough money now
to take them out Of the district if
they wanted to leave. For the first
six weeks all Of the 1900 were
striking. The average wages paid,
including mine boys at IS cents
day, and coal miners at from $50 to
IS day, is s2,05. Counting at this
rate good men lost during the first
five weeks $553.50O in wages. Then
A. Carnegie gave an advance and
5000 men went to work. For six
weeks the remaining 5000 have been
carrying on the strike and have lost
S442,S00, making a total loss in
wages Of $9G6,30C. If a sliding scale
equal to 121 per cent. advance is ar
ranged for them it will take a year
and nine months steady work to
make up for the time they have lost.
The operators have also been heavy
losers. Pumps have been kept run
ming at all the pits. Yard and pit
bosses, superintendents and clerks,
have been drawing salaries, and
mules and horses have been getting
fat on oats and hay that they did not
earn. At West Leisenring, where
tie Finkerton men have been sta
toned, the expenses have been over
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS.
Details Made Puplic Of a Kansas Plot
to Murder President Buchanan.

SARATOGA, n. Y, July 12.-Jef-
ferson Davis recent reference to the
two attempts that were made to as
sassinate hila when he was president
cf the Southern Confederacy, was the
subject Of interest yesterday in
group of army veterans on the piazza
of Saratoga hotel. In the course
of the evening a statement was made
by one Of the speakers there, which
has never until now been put 10 print,
about plot once laid to assassinate
a president who is supposed to have
passed through his term of office
without shadow of danger. Let me
quote his words as nearly as I can
recall them: Besides the cases of
Garfield and Lincoln he said, "there
was conspiracy against President
Lincoln's predecessor in the white
house, James Buchanan. The plot
was hatched during President Blu.
chanan's term in the year 1858, in
Kansas, where I was then serving
under the gallant General Sumner
during the border troubles. You can
hardly conceive the intensity of the
hatred for Buchanan that was felt by
the Kansas abolitionists. 1t seethed
and ragged in their breasts, and
seemed to be unquenchable. He
was held to be the author of all the
crimes charged against the "border
ruffians" and all the blooGshed that
kept the settlers of the newly.opened
territory in an uproar. To hear Gen.
Jim Lane, who subsequently became
senator and committed suicide, after
he had slain his adversary, Captain
Jenkins, dcclaim against Buchanan
at the meetings of The armed squat
ters, was to have your passions
wrought up to madness.
In such q state Of things as mat
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28

bGSIItS IIIo -
cold and badly out of repair. Fu!ly
q third of them all over the region
will have to be overhauled before
coal can be put into them. Then'
too, the COKE trade has fallen off, and
it will take time and money to build
it up again. 1t is estimated that the
actual expense to operators has been
from $1,000 to $4,000 day, while
their loss entire will foot up over
s1,OOO,000.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
The Wrong Crowd.
From the Chicago Tribune

Sam Jones recently preached four
days in Henry County, Kentucky
without making a single convert
At the close of his last sermon ne
remarked: The sermon "hlch !
have Just preached at you was the
one which converted Sam Sms
therefore thought it ought to make at
1oost one convert here, but had for
no+ten that this congregation is com;
oospd Of citizens of Henry County. q
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
Four People Shot in an Indian flght IN
a. Circus.

CLINTON, Iowa, July 2o.--Eour
people were shot during the Wild
West performance of Sells Bros.
circus on Tuesday night. George
Harrington, aged IT, was shot fataAy'
Mrs. ". A. Lambertson, danger
ously; Wallace Phillips, aged le' Sc
riouslv. One Of the Indians was
shot, but was Immediately taken
away. The shooting was done dur
inc an encounter Of cowboys and In
dians in the ring. 1t is supposed
that some cowboy got the wrong re-
volver.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28

George III. celebrated the jubilee
of his reign as King of England oc'
tober 25, 1910, but 1t WAS not OBJ
served in India till the next year.
The news of the battle of Waterloo
which was fought June 18, l0l5' did
not reach Calcutta till December le.
Now Calcutta and London are IN
constant communication.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28

he replied, that Jefferson Davis did
not tell the story of his attempted as
sassination till now, that I did not
see any use of it. But I have all the
facts in writing and they will be some
day found among my papers, by
which time, it is hoped, one or two
men, yet prominent in politics, will
have passed from the STAGE
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
EEhiskcy the Cause Of Railroad DIS
aSter.

sr. THOMAS, ONT, July pat
an inquest in connection with the
late railway disaster witnesses sWore
that the engineer was under the in.
fuence of liquor and unfit to control
the train, also that the conductor had
been drinking, though not intoxl-
Gated. The inquest is still proceed
inc.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
An Evil Thing.

Good mawrin, Wilyum; has yo'
read about de communication de
Pope has glib Doctar. McGlynn p
"No sar; dis chile steer clear OBJ dat;
communication corrupt gaod man
ners, sar.''
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
The Long and Short Of 1t
Harpe,''s Bazaar.

Architect Have you any special
features you want incorporated
in the designs for your man
sion ?" Mr.. Moneybags: "Hm !
Not perticklar. Only I must have
the two halls that l hear so much
about nowadays" Architect Gn'
oniripglv): "The two halls p Mr..
Monevbags Yes; the long ball
and the short hall, doucler know"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
Something About Jay Gould.
BIZ Bill ME-

Jay Gould owes much of his sue
cess in life to economy and neural
gia. He also loves to relieve dis.
tress on Wall Street, and is so pas.
sionately fond Of this as he grows
older that he has been known to dis.
tress other stock, men just for the
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28

The United States OWES shout s'o'-
0O0,O00 worth of buildings, and has
not 8 cent worth of insurance on any
Of them. Most of them are practl'
cally 6re-proof.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
TIE CORNER IN COTTON.
Sharing the Fate Of Coffee and Prunes
New York Times.

The corner in cotton appears to be
yielding to natural conditions that
are beyond the control of specula-
tors. In this respect it resembles
the Harper deal in wheat and the
corners in coffee, prunes and Ohio
blackberries. But while the opera
tions of spectators in those products
caused very little injury either to the
consumer or to the nations foreign
trade, this corner in cotton has af-
fected our exports in deplorable
manner. The wheat deal temporarily
closed several flour factories and
slightly reduced the quantity of flour
exported. 1t also appreciably cut
down our exports of wheat at time
when the outward movement should
not have been restrained. But the
disastrous failure Of the ring opened
the gates, and the large exports of
the last three or four weeks will 60
far to make the shortage
The effect Of the cotton corner up
on our foreign trade is very clearly
shown by official reports. From the
monthly summaries exports pub
!ished by the treasury department we
take the following figures exhibiting
the value of the cotton exported in the
last three months as compared with
the value for the corresponding
months Of 1886:
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28

e. The habit of ofloitering in the ground
about the white house, and that be
had seen in Washington gunsmith's
an air gun which was just the thing
needed, and that he was sure he
could make his escape after the fall
of his victim and get back to Kansas.
He was assured Of protection as soon
as he cot there after the execution OF
his design. Tie plot ripened. The
day for the deed was approaching.
The desperate drank heavily as ne
bided his time in Lawrence. A slight
incident that came under ny notice,
and a few words that I overheard one
day, put me on the scent. ana when
7 communicated them to General
Sumner at Fort Riley I was put on
special duty to keep lookout, and
soon found myself employed as bar
keeper for WinchelFs saloon, Main
street, then called Massachusetts,
street in Lawrence. After midnight
of one Saturday the knot of plotters
were in the rear room Of the saloon
t around bottle of good rye whiskey
, behind locked door. Learned the
: the game, and on the following Mon
r day threw up my place as barkeeper'
d 7 left town. The facts were commu
J. nicated to the proper quarter, and
t was assigned to the duty that was
a thus made necessary.
g Some time in April got informa
l. ton that the desperate was at Leav
10 enworth. We reached Washington
almost simultaneously. From tha
n time he was under my eye. Within
n two days he visited the old Germa
g. gunsbop, examined the air gun' whlc
u he had previously seen, and whlc
u IL be purchased for S25. It was put i
+ its case and sent to his quarters
,e which we're within gunshot of th
st grounds Of the white house. Ths
%, afternoon Mr.. Buchanan was warned
~, and that night the man, who l ia
q. ascertained had been fugitive frol
he justice, was arrested upon an Indie
lc- ment for felony he had committe
az two years before in the District
oa Columbia. The man was speedlI
he brought to trial on the old indie
ny ment, convicted and sentenced
!ly four years in the Albany penitentiar
nc The man was a wreck when he can
sre from the penitentiary. He died so'
itv afterward.7
he Why have you never told the
icy facts before? we asked the veter'
3su when he had concluded.
For the same reason, perhaps